Excursions
Bring your students on a fun learning journey through the majestic, heritage listed fire station. We offer specialised, professionally developed programs with clear curriculum links. Our free programs focus on a range of natural and man-made hazards and responses including land search and rescue, flood, fire, severe storm and cyclone, earthquake and tsunami.
Don’t forget to bring your camera.
When making a booking, please pay careful attention to session times as each session will start promptly at these times.
Important Documents
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Programs in 2012
Our programs can be modified to suit students with English as Second Language (ESL) and special needs. Please let us know when you make your booking and we will endeavour to tailor our programs to meet the developmental needs of your students.
In 2012, we offer three programs
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Emergency Helpers in the Community and Me!
(Preprimary to Year 2)
The Emergency Helpers in the Community and Me! Program focuses on FESA’s emergency helpers (e.g. WA Fire & Rescue Service (career and volunteer), Bushfire Brigades, State Emergency Service (SES) and the Volunteer Marine Rescue Service) and what students can do to keep themselves safe when it comes to emergencies. Students are introduced to the uniforms and safety equipment used by FESA career and volunteer emergency service workers and volunteers. The program also reinforces basic fire safety messages and the importance of triple zero (000).
Prior to your visit, discuss safe and unsafe fires with your students. This can include giving matches and lighters to an adult and phoning 000 in an emergency. Our understanding is that students will be learning about various helpers in their community. Students may have already been introduced to the roles of the police and ambulance services.
Please bring at least two cameras per class as students will have the opportunity to dress up, providing a group photo opportunity with students lined up in front of one of our classic fire trucks.
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Home Fire Safety
(Year 2 to Year 7; High School Education Support)
The Home Fire Safety Program’s main aim is for students to develop a Home Fire Escape Plan and put into practice at home with their families. The visit covers: fire hazards in the kitchen and home, smoke and smoke alarms, crawling low under smoke and having a safe meeting place. The visit includes a tour of ground floor of the building where students can see classic fire engines, extinguishers and breathing apparatus as they learn about the history of Perth’s first fire station and the WA Fire Brigades. As part of the program students dress up in firefighter uniforms.
Students visit the kitchen in the All-Hazards gallery, where they learn about common fire hazards in the home, and practise crawling low. We model a Home Fire Escape Plan and students learn where it is best to place smoke alarms in a home and the quickest escape routes.
It is expected that upon return to school, students will draw their own Home Fire Escape Plan which they will take home and practise with their families.
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Natural Hazards
(Year 11 – Geography 2A)
This program runs for 1 hour and 45 minutes and includes a one hour lecture on the prevention, preparation, response and recovery to natural hazards in Western Australia (WA), as well as a self-guided tour with activity sheet through our all-hazards gallery.
The program looks at how government legislation and policy determine how natural hazards are managed at a local, regional and state level in WA; government strategies to minimise risk; the impact of natural hazards in terms of life, property and biodiversity; as well as what can be done to change people’s behaviour to minimise future loss, build resilience and help people through their recovery afterwards.
It is a general program however the lecture can provide examples of a particular geomorphic or atmospheric hazard. When you book, please let our Program Coordinators know which hazard you would like us to focus on in our presentation.
Click here to access our all-hazard gallery activity sheet (PDF).
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Making a Booking
Please contact FESA’s Program Coordinators for School Aged Education to make a booking. The centre is open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Phone 9416 3404 or 9416 3403 to make your booking, or email us at educationandheritage@fesa.wa.gov.au
We strongly suggest you read the program times and Excursion Management Plan (PDF) before making your booking. The Excursion Management Plan includes information about bus parking, morning tea and toilet facilities. Please be aware, unless there are exceptional circumstances we adhere strictly to our set program times.
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Program Times
Our programs generally run for 90 minutes and the following sessions are available for bookings:
10:15am – 11:45am Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays
12:30pm – 2:00pm Tuesdays and Thursdays ONLY
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Fire Fighter Visits
Career firefighters visit Year 3 students in metropolitan Perth and large regional centres. Contact your local fire station to arrange a visit to your school.
Volunteer firefighters and SES volunteers may be able to visit your school. Contact your local service to find out more.
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Regional Schools
From 2009, FESA has delivered a Good Fire, Bad Fire in the Kimberley program in the Dampier Peninsular, Wyndham and Kununurra. The main aim of this program is to increase communities understanding of bushfires, including risk and minimise the inappropriate lighting of fires by juveniles in the region. In Broome, FESA visited St Mary’s and Cable Beach Primary schools, Beagle Bay, Djarindjin-Lombadina and One Arm Point on the Dampier Peninsular. The program was also delivered to students at Kununurra DHS, Wyndham DHS and St Joseph’s Primary Schools in both Kununurra and Wyndham.
FESA’s Community Safety Officers, regional staff and local rangers to ensure local knowledge and images are used in the delivery of this program.
A similar program has been delivered previously to schools in the Pilbara.
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eNews
FESA’s Education and Heritage Centre produce six e-letters each school year. These provide information about our schools’ programs and include community safety messages for schools to place in their own school newsletters.
If you would like to subscribe please let us know and we will add your details to our database.
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